Jul 26, 2004
Technology
Dead Dead Dead
I’m at a loss as to what I’m supposed to do with myself right now. So far this morning Slashdot is dead or dying with an HTTP503 error, and Google’s still off the map. Ugh.
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Jul 25, 2004
Zoon Politikon
This Land Was Made for You and Me
There’s a great short film over on Atom Films starring “John Kerry” and “George W. Bush”. I highly recommend watching it regardless of your political persuasion. Did you notice the Dr. Strangelove reference?
Jul 17, 2004
Miscellaneous
An Evening at Safeway
I was at Safeway last night buying a container of shaving cream. It had been four days or so since I last shaved and I was in dire need of it. The couple in front of me in line was really quite interesting. The woman had a huge hickey on the side...
Jul 10, 2004
Video Games
Sony Consoles
In the interest of clearing up any confusion you may have over the game consoles Sony has released, or plans to release, just refer to this handy listing. Playstation - A small gray CD-based video game console. PSX - It depends on who you’re ask...
Jul 04, 2004
Developer Tools
Java 5.0
In honor of Sun’s decision to rename Java 1.5 to Java 5.0 I am officially renaming iRooster 1.2 to be iRooster version 20.0. Also, in honor of Apple, this release must be referred to as iRooster XX. I intend to release iRooster XXX within a few mo...
Jul 01, 2004
Personal Life
Just a good week
This has been a pretty damned good week for me: Four day weekend. My birthday is on Sunday (22, in case you were curious). New car tomorrow. Massage tomorrow at four. Finally done with performance reviews. Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 f...
Jun 29, 2004
Developer Tools
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 RTM!!!!
WWDC might be catching most of the news right now, but Microsoft has its own developer event going on now too. TechEd Europe in Amsterdam just got started with a terrific keynote and some very cool product announcements. You can now download free ...
Jun 28, 2004
Mac OS X
Software, Baby
So a multi-billion dollar company introduces its sleek and sexy new operating system today. Wall Street yawns and drops its stock price by 3%, and tons of this company’s users cry foul over the 3rd party applications being driven out of the market...
Jun 26, 2004
Personal Life
Fuck the Mazda
I ended up purchasing a Toyota Scion tC last week. I’m incredibly pleased with the purchsae; the car has power everything standard, AC standard, keyless entry standard, 17” alloy rims and the same tires they put on a $30,000 Lexus, a decent speake...
Jun 21, 2004
Personal Life
My Car Sucks
My 1995 Mazda 626 is horked. And I mean completely a goner. I was in an accident 6 weeks ago that damaged the bumpers and screwed up the trunk. I finally took the car into the shop to have it looked at last week only to find out that it was deeme...